Corset



(Model.)

fr. P. TAYLOR.

Corset.

No. 239,884. Patented April 5,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS P. TAYLOR, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,884, dated April5,-1881.

Application filed February 21, 1881. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS P.TAYLOR, of

Bridgeport, Fairfield Count-y, Connecticut.'

have invented aivlmproveiiient in Corsets, of which the following is thespecification.

My invention relates to that classv of corsets in which short bones areutilized in supporting the corset for its entireheight by extending suchbones from each end and causing them to overlap at the cent-er; and myinvention consists in the mode hereinafter described of constructing thecorset so as to facilitate its manufacture and increase its efficiency.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View, illustrating the mannerof making the pieces composing the boned section of the corset. Fig. 2is a longitudinal section through one of said corset-sections ascompleted, and Fig. 3 is a side view of one of said sections.

As in other corsets of this kind, the bones a a are shorter than thelength of the corset, extending from each edge thereof, and overlappingfor a portion of their length, so that the corset is double-boiled atthe waist portion. This feature broadly does not constitute any portionof lny present invention.

To form the receptacles for the two series of bones, and at the sametime impart greater durability to the waist portion, I make each sectionA of two separate pieces of fabric, B C, each of which is foldedcentrally upon itself, and the doubled portions overlapped, as shownWhile thus arranged the section is stitched by longitudinal rows ofstitches x, as shown in Fig. 3, thereby forming at one operation twoseries of pockets and connecting the two separate pieces B C firmlytogether.

y of which closes the upper ends of these pockets. The bones a areinserted in the upper pockets from the top, and the bones a in the lowerpockets from the bottom, and both series of pockets are then closed bythe application of the edge-binding b.

By thiseonstruction the corset with its double series of overlappingpockets is easily made, while two thicknesses of material are interposedbetween the overlying portions of the bones, imparting greater stiffnessat this point andpreventing the bones from being bent abruptly. As theedge presented by the overlapping portion B at the line y is unsightly,[conceal it by a strip of lace, I,f Fig. 3, which, while covering theedge, also ornaments the corset.

I do not here claim, broadly, the formation of parallel pocketsextending from the edgesV and overlapping at the inner portions, as thisis claimed in my application tiled November 17, 1880; nor do I claim,broadly, a corset-section in which the bones in one portion over lapthose of the other. l am also aware that the overlapped sections havebeen closed at the inner edge by folding and stitching the edges of twopieces together; but

I claim- In a corset having a series of pockets extending from itsopposite edges, the separate pieces B C, each folded centrally uponitself, to make closed edges y y', overlapped at the folded portions,and sewed together by longitudinal rows of stitches nc, all as setforth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification inthepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

THOMAS P. TAYLOR.

Witnesses GEO. D. SHEL'roN, E. YoUMANs.

